Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu to review progress of new urban missions in N-E States in Guwahati tomorrow

99,940 houses for urban poor sanctioned in last two years against 31,778 houses for N-E during 2004-14

Progress of Atal Mission, Swach Bharat Mission, Smart City Mission and PMAY(Urban) to be reviewed

Minister of
Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M.Venkaiah
Naidu will review the progress of new urban missions in the eight States of
North-Eastern region during the day long stock taking in Guwahati tomorrow.

Secretaries
of both the urban ministries, National Mission Directors of new urban missions
launched by the central government and senior officials have already reached
Guwahati for official level review today with State Level Mission Directors
and other senior officials of States.

Chief
Ministers and Ministers of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs and Housing
would join the review by Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu tomorrow.

Implementation
of Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana (Urban), Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and
Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Smart City Mission, all launched on June 25,
2015 and Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) launched on October 2, 2014 besides the
continuing 10% Lump Sum Scheme for North-East and North-Eastern Region Urban
Development Programme will be reviewed over today and tomorrow.

Under PMAY
(Urban), Ministry of HUPA has approved construction of 99,940 affordable houses
for urban poor in the eight States of N-E during the last two years as against
31,778 sanctioned during ten years between 2004-14 under JNNURM and Rajiv Awas
Yojana. Of these houses sanctioned during 2004-14, only 20,991 houses were
constructed.

Details of
affordable houses sanctioned for N-E States are:

State

No
of houses sanctioned under JNNURM

No
of houses sanctioned under RAY

No
of houses sanctioned under PMAY (Urban) since 2015

Arunachal
Pradesh

1,172

1,536

70

Assam

6,583

-

24,353

Manipur

4,079

-

9,748

Meghalaya

1,232

-

48

Mizoram

3,046

142

10,314

Nagaland

6,265

1,054

12,506

Sikkim

293

-

1

Tripura

3,371

3,005

42,900

Total

26,041

5,737

99,940

Under
PMAY(Urban), central government provides an assistance in the range of Rs.1.00
lakh to Rs.2.40 lakh per each beneficiary.

12 towns of
N-E States have been included in the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation for Urban
Transformation (AMRUT) for providing water taps to all urban households besides
improving water supply to the normative level of 135 litres per capita per day,
expanding sewerage and drainage networks, promoting non-motorised transport and
development of open spaces in mission cities.

N-E towns
included in AMRUT are:

Arunachal
Pradesh: Itanagar

Assam:
Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Naogaon and Silchar

Manipur:
Imphal

Meghalaya
: Shillong

Mizoram:
Aizawl,

Nagaland:
Dimapur and Kohima

Sikkim:
Gangtok

Tripura:
Agartala.

Under AMRUT, Ministry of
Urban Development supports 90% of the project costs in N-E States as against
only one third to half of the project costs in other States.

8 N-E towns have been
included under Smart City Mission. Of these 5 towns viz., Guwahati, Imphal,
Agartala, Kohima and Namchi(Sikkim) have been selected for financing through
competition. Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh), Shillong and Mizoram are participating
in the third round of smart city competition.

Ministry of Urban
Development provides an assistance of Rs.500 cr per each smart city over a
period of five years.